Oh, I’d also tell him to beef up science funding by a factor of 10 or 100 or so, because the situation right now is pathetic. And let’s get to Mars, dammit!
I’d thank him for making the world a little safer, (nuclear non proliferation treaty.)
I’d tell him it’s refreshing to have a president that doesn’t worship money and capitalism at any cost.
I’d say I admire him for not caring that fixing the broken things, ( health care, immigration, wall street, etc, etc.) could cost him a second term.
I would try my best to educate him on how badly his socialistic actions are fucking this country up.
But it would fall on deaf ears. He had 70+% of the American people telling him that Obamacare was not wanted and he rammed it down our throats anyway.
I’d ask “Is it twoo?” 
I would tell him not to listen to people like Clothahump, and that he’s doing a great job consider the hostility of the opposition.
I tell him that while there are people who will tell him not to give any more thought to bipartisanship, the reality is that he has to at least LOOK bipartisan while being liberal. In that vein, he needs to start using more forceful language to push his agenda through.
I would tell him that much of the American people are stupid, and they need clear and obvious evidence of evil by the Republicans to sway them. He should make a speech detailing what he wants to do on health care, or nukes, or whatever, then have a monitor ready and play for everyone to see how Republicans have also supported the exact same thing he is supporting. When he talks about drawing down nukes, he should have a clips of Reagan ready to play. When he talks health care he should have Republicans from 1994 talking about how wonder health care reform is, or Mitt Romney from 3 years ago talking about government health care in Massachusetts. Basically have a Republican clip ready for any GOP challenge, to make the American people see that the GOP are being hypocrites and highly stupid for challenging him on his agenda now.
And finally, secretly create a real liberal network modeled after Fox, who is unabashedly liberal yet claims to be moderate or speaking for Americans.
Do more to repeal DADT.
ETA: And stay the course in Afghanistan. I’m frustrated with my fellow liberals who want to withdraw from Afghanistan. I would want him to know that some of us who supported him in the election have not deserted with him re: foreign policy.
Yeah, because it’s not like anyone here swallowed the Fox Kool-Aid or anything (right down to their catchphrase “ramming it down our throats!”).
“Mr. President, back in 2009 you said there were hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud, and corruption in Medicare. But you didn’t cut any of it out of Medicare this year. Why do you want to continue to spend money on waste, fraud, and corruption? Why don’t you cut it out this year? What are you waiting for?”
Followed by a nice measured "WHERE THE FUCK ARE WE GONNA GET A TRILLION AND A HALF FUCKING DOLLARS TO PAY BACK WHAT YOU ARE SPENDING!"
Regards,
Shodan
That’s a little disingenuous of you isn’t it? The only way you could twist the polls into saying a majority of Americans “disapprove” of “Obamacare” is if you lump together those who say it goes too far with those who say it doesn’t go far enough. I don’t think it’s intellectually honest to say 70% didn’t want it, when a large portion of those people actually wanted more.
Ya know, I think if anyone asked him a political question, he’d automatically go into “campaign mode” and would just give you ten minutes of nonanswers. Even if he knew with 100% certainty that you were not wearing a wire or that the conversation was being recorded at all.
I’d rather just try to chat him like a normal guy. Probably start by questioning his choice of alcoholic beverage and go from there.
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Awww. Seriously, how about a tiny bit of respect for the office. Regardless of politics. I use the F word way more than average, but would never use it over dinner with the President. I mean, his daughters are there! Come on.
So, you didn’t watch the summit at Blair House, then.
Never heard of it.
Oh, you’re right. Strike all references to copulation and append a “by gadfrey” to the statement.
Not that it really matters - the Secret Service would have spotted my characteristic tics suggesting barely-suppressed lunacy long before we got to the salad course, and whisked me away to an undisclosed location that Obama is going to close up, eventually.
Regards,
Shodan
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You do have some expectation of what his answer might be, right? Some variant of either “From freeing up the money we’re spending on your guy’s war in Iraq” or “When did you start to care?” might be satisfying. Or he might just refer you to the CBO scoring on health care reform, or even to a basic introduction to Keynes if it’s the stimulus packages you’re asking about, a large part of which he might refer you to your guy once again.
A very enlightening thing, it was.
One question might be “Did you leave that meeting with any hope that even talking with those people might not be a waste of time?”
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I’d point out that ADA needs an update for modern technology. it’s increasingly hard to find captions.
Other than that, I don’t think there’s much I can say or do that will substantially change the his direction. Something like pointing out ADA might have an impact, these are generally feel-good issues that politicians aren’t aware of, but he’s not going to slash the budget or impose single payer because of what anyone says to his face. What’s the point?
With the ADA issue out of the way, I’d probably just ask him general questions, just get to know the person. But I wouldn’t expect anything other than carefully scripted responses – even something like asking a favorite color might result an answer like “purple” – and btw, that’s what I’d expect of any politician, not Obama in particular.
ADA ???